he acted like a very jealous man, and every day it was getting worse and worse and worse. campbell s behavior becomes increasingly threatening and violent. it began to turn around where he started to keep the money and just give her enough money to get something to eat. he had gotten ahold of her passport and her visa and all her immigration documents. she had asked for that stuff back, and he refused to give it to her. so she didn t have no idea where to go, what to do. he started to even yell at me for just no reason, didn t know what was going on. it went to the point when i was really afraid of him. julia soon realizes she is not alone. campbell had four other ukrainian women working at the spa. all were young and all were in the country illegally. they have to totally obey him, whatever he says. if not, they will have to pay for that.
introduced her to the owner of several chicago massage parlors. a businessman named alex campbell. the first time i talked to him was over the phone. there was nothing suspicious about him. just, like, regular person, talked to me about a job. even though julia has no experience as a massage therapist, campbell offers her a job. in the beginning, he was her knight in shining armor. she was in a situation. he came along and saved her from that situation. he gave her a job. he gave her a car to get around in. he gave her an apartment to live in and she was paid very well. after a few months of constant attention, julia reluctantly begins a romantic relationship with campbell. i would not say that i liked him so much at first, but i think i got used to him, and then i realized that it was not even my decision, it just, like, happened. then things start to change.
worse. campbell s behavior becomes increasingly threatening and violent. it began to turn around where he started to keep the money and just give her enough money to get something to eat. he had gotten ahold of her passport and her visa and all her immigration documents. she had asked for that stuff back, and he refused to give it to her. so she didn t have no idea where to go, what to do. he started to even yell at me for just no reason, didn t know what was going on. it went to the point when i was really afraid of him. julia soon realizes she is not alone. campbell had four other ukrainian women working at the spa. all were young and all were in the country illegally. they have to totally obey him, whatever he says. if not, they will have to pay for that. julia recalled she first witnessed campbell s brutality one night after campbell took his staff to dinner.
julia reported her boyfriend had beaten and threatened her. he said many times that he would kill me and nothing would stop him. she feared for her life and she feared she could be killed by him and thought she would be killed by him for going to the police. vanhorn plugged julia s so-called boyfriend s name into the computer. before i started this case, i never even heard of alex campbell. once i put him in the system, i found an extensive criminal history. in 1986, campbell shot his way into a house, then held two women captive in a tense standoff with chicago police. convicted of attempted murder, home invasion and kidnapping, campbell served ten years. after his release, he was arrested, again, for selling young women. and many of those women like julia sported that telltale horseshoe tattoo. i came up with several other
doesn t belong to you anymore, now your life belongs to me. i am your kingdom and i am your god. campbell then gave julia an ultimatum. if she ever again disrespected or angered him, she would be taken to the basement. he used his basement as a place kind of torturing people. and he said that whoever comes in this basement will never come out alive from that place. and he said that it was really easy to get rid of the dead bodies. for six months, julia says she was a virtual prisoner. forced to work 12-hour days in the spa doing bookkeeping and massage. i told him, i am going to leave, just give me back my pass port, because i m done. then he said that it s not going to happen. he would never just let me go. mr. campbell had told her that he had police officers working for him.